Planooraph co



W. H. STEVENS.

GARTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26. I918.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

TNB COLUMBIA PLANOGRAIH CO. WMNINGTON, D- C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. STEVENS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

Original application filed July 17, 1917, Serial No. 180,990. Divided and this application filed September 26, 1918. Serial No. 255,780.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM H. STIWENS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garters, of which the following is a specification.

This application is a division of my ap- PliCttlOIl Serial No. 180,990 filed July 17th, 191 l The invention relates to improvements in garters, and one of the objects is to-provide an attaching member for garters of such construction that it will securely hold the fabric of the stocking or garment, and without danger of tearing. The clasp is preferably made of one piece of material and provides means for effecting a resilient grip, and is characterized by a construction and relation to the garter such that it may be readily manipulated for gripping and releasing the stocking or garment.

Another object is to provide an arrangement of parts such that when the device is in gripping position the stocking or other garment will be between the gripping member of the garter and the skin of the wearer.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less broad than those stated above, together with the advantages inherent, will be in part obvious and in part specifically referred to in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as part of this specification, and in which I have shown merely a preferred form of embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 i an elevation illustrating part of a garter provided with a form of attaching member embodying my invention and illustrating its connection to the garter pad as in use; and Fig. 2 is viewsimilar to Fig. 1 illustrating another position of the attachingkmem ber.

eferring to the numerals on the drawing, 3 indicates the garter pad of a leg garter, at the middle lower portion of which is provided a loop 4, in which slides a frame 5 com rising a cut-out 6 diminishing into a slot this construction providing a resilient tongue 8, between which and the adjacent edge of the frame 5 the gripping action is effected. The cut-out portion 6 serves for the introduction of a bight 9 of the stocking or. garment, which is then brought into position within the slot 7, either by moving the frame or by moving the material to be gripped. The garter pad extends down wardly well beyond the loop 4, so that the frame 5 overlies the end of the pad. Within the loop 1 the frame 5 may be turned, by sliding it to the right or to the left, to assume the positions shown in full and dotted lines respectively in Fig. 1.

With the parts in the dotted line position of Fig. 1, with the cut-out 6 at the top, corresponding to the showing in Fig. 9., a bight 9 of the stocking or garment is pulled through the cut-out 6 and held, the while the frame 5 is turned to the full line position of Fig. 1. The result of this is to engage the stocking or garment firmly within the slot 7, along with the forward portion of the loop 4:, and the stocking will be between the frame 5 and the end of the pad, as indicated in Fig. 1, so that the frame 5 cannot touch the skin. This is particularly advantageous in cases where the frame is made of metal, and has the further effect of diminishing the friction exercised upon the stocking or garment by the edges of the gripping slot. Instead of moving the frame to the full line position of Fig. 1, the stocking might be gripped within the slot 7 and then the frame turned to the position where the cut-out 6 is at the top and the slot 7 at the bottom. This would have the effect of giving the garter a little longer reach.

It will be understood that the attaching member may be made of various materials, metal or celluloid or the like, but it is essential that the selfcontained spring gripping mem ber constituted by the tongue 8 cooperating with' the adjacent edge of the frame should be resilient, whether inherently or by reason of its conformation. Of course care should be taken to have the gripping edges in every case rounded or smooth so as to avoid tearing of the garment.

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention could. be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above dodrawings shall be interpreted asillus-trative nd not in a limiting sense. 7

It is also to be understood that the lan guage used in the following claims is in tended: to cover all: the generic and specific features of-the invention herein described and all' statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to 3,111 therebetvveenr V r I claim: V

111m device of the kind described, a pad havingadownw'ard extension a loop upon the pad abovethe end of the downward. extension and an attaching member compris- 2. In a device of the kind described, a pad 20 7 having a downward extension, a loop upon the pad above the end of the downward extension and an attaching memhercomprising a closed frame slidalble and revoluble' in the loop and having va cut-out. portion 25 diminishing into a recurved slot, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof-I afiix my signature.

WILLIAM H. STEVENS.

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